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close this bookHealth Economics for Developing Countries: A Survival Kit (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1998, 134 p.)
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View the documentChapter 1: Health Economics and its Contribution to Health Planning
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View the documentChapter 5: Demand, Supply and the Price System
View the documentChapter 6: Concepts of Economic Efficiency
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View the documentChapter 9: The Techniques of Economic Evaluation
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View the documentChapter 12: Sources of Finance for the Health Sector
View the documentChapter 13: Budgetary Procedures: Budgetary Reform and Programme Budgeting
View the documentChapter 14: Approaches to Financial Planning: Resource Allocation Planning and the Financial Master Plan
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Acknowledgements

The material in this publication was first developed for the 1986 Seminar on Health Economics and Health Financing in Developing Countries held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in association with the London School of Economics and Political Science and the World Health Organization. The support of these organizations for this and subsequent seminars is gratefully acknowledged. In addition, support from the Overseas Development Administration has enabled the original material to be further developed and published in this form for wider dissemination: for this we are most grateful.

The original material was written not only by one of the current authors (Anne Mills) but also by several colleagues whose important contributions we would like to acknowledge. Their names and main contributions are as follows:

Geoff Hoare

- Health care: the state versus the market


- Concepts of economic efficiency


- Inputs, resources and costs


- Outputs, health and health indicators


- Health sector finance and expenditure


- Sources of finance for the health sector



George Cumper

- Economic development and health


- Financing economic and health development


- National Accounts and the health sector



Jenny Roberts

- Demand, supply and the price system

However, we accept final responsibility for the revised versions of the chapters presented here.

We are also grateful to Dianne Fishman for her editorial assistance and to our EPC colleagues for their support.